Sebastien Locteau

Marathon has always been, for some, the ultimate achievement. There is a mythical aspect behind it. Forest Marathon 2017 by S.Locteau I receive many requests for a simple training plan, so I have published the one I give to athlete since last year. There are many plans out there on the web, people copy and replicate and most of the plans you can find are really well written. I have run about 25 marathons so far with times between 2h51 to 5h21 depending on the conditions or if it was at the end of an Ironman triathlon, but even as a coach I always listen to people’s comments about what I should do. They are not always right but I always learn new things from them, and I do appreciate that they are taking time to talk about their own experience. I do believe that sports is all about your own experience of it, like life is, we take what suit us and leave what does not, because we are all different. I usually don’t make generic plans, simply because I love tweaking things for

"If you always train the same expect the same" My and daughters hand in perception talk in Canada In this article I will try to bring some new concept to review your training, I could do training plans or tell you exactly what to do, but with the internet I am sure you can find that information already. So let’s try something a wee bit different. It always amazed me how athletes have psychological barriers in sports. The sub 40 min 10km is one of them. Similar to the sub 4-min mile barrier in the 50 and 60's, they are the ones of those times in training that seems impossible to break, but once broken is easy to accomplish time and time again. I call them “perception time and distances issues” which in terms of goal training for a 40 min 10km a can be frustrating. Time, Distance, Skills, Physiology and Training. "Distance" When I explain this perception distance to my athletes as a self belief and educational problem I give them the

Mother Nature talked to me at the weekend! I went to Wicklow on the 12th of April 08, with my Friends Enda, Mark, Martin and Aoife. I went to Wicklow in the past and did some cycling and running around the mountains. I went there with the thought of testing my core capacity after my surgery 10 months ago. I went to Wicklow on the 12th of April 08, with my Friends Enda, Mark, Martin and Aoife. I went to Wicklow in the past and did some cycling and running around the mountains. I went there with the thought of testing my core capacity after my surgery 10 months ago. I went thinking that even if I am not very fit with my two runs a week of 45min that I would walk through it easy. Well there is some part of our nature that will never allow you to rest or take it easy. When you are stuck in the middle of the mountain with your calf feeling like a stone, yes you can stop, but the wind, rain and cold tell you have to keep going. This is where nature dictates to you what to